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Justice League Task Force #1 (1993)

Martian Manhunter looks like he's doing the most painful Boob/Butt Showcase ever attempted.

I know J'onn J'onzz's entire body is supposed to be facing forward on this cover but it really looks like he's turning all the way around at the waist. If there's any character that could successfully do that, it's Elongated Man. And also Martian Manhunter. So I'm less worried about J'onn's stance than I am about Gypsy's torso. Unless it's her ass that's the problem. Maybe the entire problem with this cover is simply Sal Velluto. This seems to be the only issue of this series that I own. That's good because the cover art by Sal is not promising. Also, I don't recognize any of the names in the creative team. Was this one of those "Let's give some new talent a project nobody at DC really cares about" kind of deals? It would seem that way judging by the roster. Even though Martain Manhunter was the backbone of the Justice League for many years, he's still kind of a nobody, nothing, bottom-of-the-barrel hero. And Gypsy?! You can't even say her name anymore without somebody canceling your shit. I don't have any complaints about The Flash because I have to save them for the members of the team on the back cover.

Ugh. Aquaman and Nightwing! The worst! Even worse than those two in the corner, Amanda Waller's younger sister and Alfred Hitchcock in a toupee.

Some of you younger jerks might not remember a time when Nightwing sucked. He fucking suuuuuuuucked. The absolute worst. He was like when you're wearing boxers and the tip of your dick pops out of the pee gateway and starts rubbing on the inside of your Levi's. He was like when you take a shit and you feel the loss of the turd's momentum right at the end and you just know you're going to have a huge hanger and probably a good inch or two of shit still up in your asshole which you'll be dealing with for the rest of the day. He was like when you're a guy and having a really good sex dream and suddenly you realize it's a dream and if you complete the act, you're going to have a huge mess to clean up and then you wake up because your brain is all "I don't want to clean up the mess!" but you're all, "You stupid brain! I was getting laid!" Man, he was just awful. And Aquaman was worse! This issue is called "The Tyranny Gun" and I'm pretending I understand that. I'm just nodding my head and enthusiastically saying out loud, "Yeah! Yeah! A gun! That shoots tyranny! Get fucked, motherfuckers!"

I get that J'onn J'onzz is probably an approximation of his real Martian name but I wouldn't call it "convenient." John Jones is his convenient name!

Martian Manhunter has been tracking down French separatist terrorists who want Quebec to secede from Canada. Yeah, okay, 1993. What an innocent time! This plot sounds like the plot of a slapstick comedy. The French version of Stripes. Why the fuck would a bunch of French people want Quebec to secede from Canada?! As if it's not already practically France anyway! I'm sure they're angry that some people fuse English words with French words, sullying their perfect fucking language. I'd be more apt to believe the Dungeon & Dragons Club in my junior high school had been running dog fights after school. You might be thinking, "That's not that ludicrous!" But then you didn't see the absolute nerds in my Dungeons and Dragons club.

I don't know why that one kid's face was blacked out by the Year Book Staff. Maybe he was so handsome he made the other guys feel bad. Or maybe...maybe he was the lead guy running the dog fights?!

As Martian Manhunter is roughing up the Quebecois terrorists, he thinks, "'Politically correct' murder." What does that even mean?! Is he suggesting French Canadians think it's okay to murder as long as you murder somebody who isn't French? Does he think Canadians murdering is politically correct? Trying to parse that statement is reminding my brain what it was like to read an Ann Nocenti script. Martian Manhunter pats himself on the back (which he can do because he has every super power in the book including Plastic Man arms) for stopping the French terrorists. He's proud that in a world with little justice, he can provide some of his own. I mean, sure! It's easy to create justice when you're the only one you have to consult in the justicing of things. Technically, I think that's called authoritarianism. But I suppose if enough people can agree that what you did without any input from anybody else at all was a decent thing, you can get away with doing it over and over again. Like Superman and sort of like Batman. I say "sort of like Batman" because I think a lot of people hate the way Batman acts and Batman just doesn't give a fuck. Meanwhile, some government types in Washington need a new Suicide Squad. But different! One composed of heroes that don't ask too many questions instead of dangerous criminals who do ask lots of questions but also know that they can have their heads blown off at any second. They need these heroes to help keep a leader of an allied nation in power. The leader has a habit of murdering political rivals so the United States doesn't want to be seen helping him. So they need a covert team of super heroes to defend the bastard. I guess those heroes will be Martian Manhunter (because he doesn't really understand Earth's ways and if you point out he's creating justice, he'll jump at the chance), Aquaman (because he needs the money), Nightwing (because he needs to prove he can make it on his own without Batman), The Flash (because he's kind of dumb, especially when it comes to politics), and Gypsy (because she can hide well, I guess).

The comic includes a Justice League Task Force membership card which I never filled out and removed.

You can tell I didn't buy into this whole government Justice League bullshit because I didn't fill out the card and stick it in my wallet for years. And I didn't not do it because I was 21 at the time! I carried around my Elfquest Fan Club card and my Wizardry Baltec's Trading Post charge card from Wizardry IV until the day I stopped carrying a wallet that closes with Velcro (that was probably in my late mid-twenties!). Hannibal, the Alfred Hitchock in a toupee looking guy from the back cover, is the man chosen to lead the Justice League Task Force. He approaches Martian Manhunter by walking into his apartment uninvited. Martian Manhunter, knowing that every cop is just looking for an excuse to shoot him with a flamethrower, acts like it's no big deal that this guy intruded on his privacy. Hannibal tells Martian Manhunter that the government needs a strike force that could save millions of lives and Martian Manhunter blurts out, "Justice!" Then he composes himself and he's all, "I'm probably in. But tell me about it first. And don't lie! I'll know if you're lying! I have all the super powers, remember!" Meanwhile in London, Justice League Europe are fighting a sewer dinosaur.

I've eaten enough sandwiches in a dark room to know Dr. Light is wrong.

Sometimes I'll read a comic book like Watchmen or The Sandman and proudly think, "This is why I read comic books!" And other times, I scan a panel of Dr. Light bending over so that you can see her lady package and I shamefully think, "This is why I read comic books!" Dr. Light is upset that Justice League Europe eventually has to kill the sewer dinosaur. But Flash is all, "It killed a bunch of people! No one ever said being a hero was full-time fun." (The second sentence of that quote is exact. I know I used quotes so you would think the entire thing was exact. But I like to embellish sometimes.) So according to The Flash, killing people for justice isn't fun. He should get that message across to American gun owners. They're all salivating looking for an excuse to murder somebody.

It's canon! Aquaman smells like shit!

Hannibal calls up Justice League Europe and he's all, "Martian Manhunter needs Aquaman and The Flash for a UN sanctioned mission!" But The Flash, who I thought would be the easiest pushover, is all, "I don't like being told what to do and just going to do it! What are we, a bunch of trained monkeys?" (Again, the second sentence is an actual quote!) But Aquaman is all, "You said it yourself! This isn't always fun. If we're needed for a vague mission where we're doing the work of the United States Government to protect the interests of shadowy men and multi-billion dollar corporations, who are we to refuse?" And The Flash is all, "You're right! Well argued! I am a trained monkey! Let's go!" Martian Manhunter recruits Gypsy in the middle of a shopping spree that's totally not a racist stereotype at all. I don't think. Maybe it is. It was 1993! Nobody knew gypsy was a slur even though if you somebody said "gypsy," everybody in the room would immediately picture the exact stereotype. You'd think we would have realized how that's like the epitome of being racist. It really made it tough on young lazy girls to put together a quick Halloween costume when everybody realized how terrible we all were. At least as a guy, we were able to get away with being hobos and tramps a little bit longer! Gypsy agrees to work on the Task Force because she needs money and a place to stay and maybe a new moniker. The team decides they're ready to go because they can't get Batman. But that's when Nightwing comes in through the balcony window and says, "Will I do?!" And everybody goes, "Aww. Batman would have dropped through the skylight!" Nobody wants to work with Nightwing because he's not in the Justice League. But Hannibal is all, "Oh, you're working with him! And that's not the only thing you're not going to like to hear! Because your job is to protect a despot and a tyrant! You need to make sure a bunch of people on some shitty island keep their terrible living conditions!" Gypsy, Martian Manhunter, The Flash, and Aquaman all make sour faces and do face palms. But Nightwing is all, "Yes! Let's do this! Suck it, Batman!" Justice League Task Force #1 Rating: C. It's as average as a comic book about a super hero group doing the terrible work of the government. I suppose that isn't always average since Suicide Squad was really good. But then they weren't heroes and they were forced to go on terrible missions. So that's why that worked. I don't see how forcing Justice League members to do terrible things in the name of the United States government is a good idea for a book. That's probably why I never purchased Issue #2!

#Justice League Task Force #DC COmics #DC #Martian Manhunter #Gypsy #The Flash #Nightwing #Aquaman #David Michilinie #Sal Velluto #Jeff Albrecht

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Du Bois on Stalin, who died 66 years ago today.

Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also—and this was the highest proof of his greatness—he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.

Stalin was not a man of conventional learning; he was much more than that: he was a man who thought deeply, read understandingly and listened to wisdom, no matter whence it came. He was attacked and slandered as few men of power have been; yet he seldom lost his courtesy and balance; nor did he let attack drive him from his convictions nor induce him to surrender positions which he knew were correct. As one of the despised minorities of man, he first set Russia on the road to conquer race prejudice and make one nation out of its 140 groups without destroying their individuality.

His judgment of men was profound. He early saw through the flamboyance and exhibitionism of Trotsky, who fooled the world, and especially America. The whole ill-bred and insulting attitude of Liberals in the U.S. today began with our naive acceptance of Trotsky’s magnificent lying propaganda, which he carried around the world. Against it, Stalin stood like a rock and moved neither right nor left, as he continued to advance toward a real socialism instead of the sham Trotsky offered.

Three great decisions faced Stalin in power and he met them magnificently: first, the problem of the peasants, then the West European attack, and last the Second World War. The poor Russian peasant was the lowest victim of tsarism, capitalism and the Orthodox Church. He surrendered the Little White Father easily; he turned less readily but perceptibly from his ikons; but his kulaks clung tenaciously to capitalism and were near wrecking the revolution when Stalin risked a second revolution and drove out the rural bloodsuckers.

Then came intervention, the continuing threat of attack by all nations, halted by the Depression, only to be re-opened by Hitlerism. It was Stalin who steered the Soviet Union between Scylla and Charybdis: Western Europe and the U.S. were willing to betray her to fascism, and then had to beg her aid in the Second World War. A lesser man than Stalin would have demanded vengeance for Munich, but he had the wisdom to ask only justice for his fatherland. This Roosevelt granted but Churchill held back. The British Empire proposed first to save itself in Africa and southern Europe, while Hitler smashed the Soviets.

The Second Front dawdled, but Stalin pressed unfalteringly ahead. He risked the utter ruin of socialism in order to smash the dictatorship of Hitler and Mussolini. After Stalingrad the Western World did not know whether to weep or applaud. The cost of victory to the Soviet Union was frightful. To this day the outside world has no dream of the hurt, the loss and the sacrifices. For his calm, stern leadership here, if nowhere else, arises the deep worship of Stalin by the people of all the Russias.

Then came the problem of Peace. Hard as this was to Europe and America, it was far harder to Stalin and the Soviets. The conventional rulers of the world hated and feared them and would have been only too willing to see the utter failure of this attempt at socialism. At the same time the fear of Japan and Asia was also real. Diplomacy therefore took hold and Stalin was picked as the victim. He was called in conference with British imperialism represented by its trained and well-fed aristocracy; and with the vast wealth and potential power of America represented by its most liberal leader in half a century.

Here Stalin showed his real greatness. He neither cringed nor strutted. He never presumed, he never surrendered. He gained the friendship of Roosevelt and the respect of Churchill. He asked neither adulation nor vengeance. He was reasonable and conciliatory. But on what he deemed essential, he was inflexible. He was willing to resurrect the League of Nations, which had insulted the Soviets. He was willing to fight Japan, even though Japan was then no menace to the Soviet Union, and might be death to the British Empire and to American trade. But on two points Stalin was adamant: Clemenceau’s “Cordon Sanitaire” must be returned to the Soviets, whence it had been stolen as a threat. The Balkans were not to be left helpless before Western exploitation for the benefit of land monopoly. The workers and peasants there must have their say.

Such was the man who lies dead, still the butt of noisy jackals and of the ill-bred men of some parts of the distempered West. In life he suffered under continuous and studied insult; he was forced to make bitter decisions on his own lone responsibility. His reward comes as the common man stands in solemn acclaim.

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White Supremacy is The New Form of Terrorism

by Joanna Graciela

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The day before the shooting, the shooter has announced his intentions in a 74 page racist manifesto. In his own page, he called himself a racist and he use ‘The Great Replacement’ logo in front of the manifesto explaining why he would be killing Islamic ‘invaders’. He believes that the purpose of the attack was “to take revenge on the invaders for the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by foreign invaders in European lands” and “to show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands, our homelands are our own and that, as long as a white man still lives, they will NEVER conquer our lands and they will never replace our people."

The day after and a moments before the shooting happened the shooter managed to emailed the manifesto to the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Then, he broadcast the attack at one of the mosque in Christchruch on his Facebook account. That later turned out it was one of the many massacres he planned in advance. Sure, he was managed to launched 2 attacks but many investigators believed that there was more attacks that he managed to planned. The shooter livestreamed his massacred on Facebook under the account 8chan. Before the Facebook official taken the video down, it has been shared to Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram. The shooter said and emphasized in the video that it is indeed a terrorist attack.

In the 17 minutes shooting video at Al Noor Mosque and Lindwood Islamic Centre. In the first location, at Al Noor Mosque the gunman managed to killed atleast 42 people and several wounded. Only adding more and more victims on the second location nshich at the Londwood Islamic Centre. In total the gunman slaughtered dead 50 people and managed to wounded more than 40 people. In the video shows how people were kneeling while praying and he just randomly shot them. Leaving them probably dead or wounded. However it was hard to confirmed from the video, it was not until the authority came and do a checking in the victims that it was confirmed how many are dead.

This all happened while he was armed with at least two assault rifles and a shotgun. It was only the day after the shooting it was confirmed by the Prime Minister that the ‘primary perpetrator’ in the shooting was a licensed gun owner. Ardern said that the gun laws in the country will change but she did not specify how.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets with victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks and their families.

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Later the shooter was confirmed to be a 28 years old Australian man, Brenton Tarrant. He was the man in the video that were widely shared online and livestreamed the whole tragedy. He indentified himself as a white supremacist who was out to avenge attacks in Europe that was perpetrated by Muslims. Before this tragedy, New Zealand’s recent shooting attack in the modern world took place in 1990 in Aramoana where a gunman only killed 13 people. Due to this shooting, the country’s security threat was raised from low to the highest and identified as the worst mass killing in New Zealand history, said Ardern.

Many of the Islamic State appealed for retribution because they believe these attacks are an extension of the U.S.-led military campaign against the group in Syria and Iraq. As it is said by Abu Hassan al-Muhajir that “they should wake up those who were fooled and should incite the supporters of the caliphate to avenge their religion”. He saw that this case is similar as the Pittsburgh Synagogue in which the alleged gunman, Robert Bowers, responsible for the death of 11 people. However, before the shooting Bowers did not have any criminal record and being charged to the hospital due to a gun fight with the police. Evethough an hour before the shooting he said that “HIAS [Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society] likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. I'm going in”.Bowers now faced at least 29 federal charges according to the United States Department of Justice but did not being charged with a domestic terrorism with the reason that there would need to be evidence the suspect tried to propagate a particular ideology through violence and treating it as a hate crime.

Both alleged killers justified their violence as self-defense, needed because of the other side’s violence. That’s because white supremacists and violent Islamists are radicalizing in nearly identical ways. Both Bowers and Tarrant are convinced that they have to protect their people from “invading” terrorists. This king of thing happened because of a historical roots back to the 9/11 incident when Osama bin Landen said, “We should punish the oppressor in kind, and we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children”. Every single extremist killing in 2018 had a link to right-wing or white-supremacist ideology, according to a recent study by the Anti-Defamation League. But unlike the threat from violent Muslims, many officials and political leaders seem completely uninterested in trying to stop white radicalization.

Sources:

AP - https://www.apnews.com/ce9e1d267af149dab40e3e5391254530

BBC - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46022930

CNN - https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/28/us/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting/index.html

INSIDER - https://www.thisisinsider.com/christchurch-shooting-timeline-49-killed-new-zealand-mosques-2019-3#the-author-said-he-was-an-ordinary-white-man-who-decided-to-take-a-stand-to-ensure-a-future-for-my-people-2

Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-shootout/dozens-killed-in-shooting-attacks-on-new-zealand-mosques-idUSKCN1QW05Y

TIME - http://time.com/5555396/white-supremacist-attacks-rise-new-zealand/

United States Department of Justice - https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/statement-filing-federal-charges

The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/15/18266859/new-zealand-shooting-video-social-media-manipulation

The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/03/22/feature/how-white-supremacy-and-islamist-terrorism-strengthen-each-other-online/?utm_term=.09bb052ae973

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9 shootings in 50 days: Italy′s ugly face of racism | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW

The shot fired from an air gun that disrupted the tranquility of a tree-lined provincial road in the central Italian city of Forlì in early July was met with disbelief by those who initially didn’t pick up on it — not everyone in the city pays much attention to local events. The first to be taken by surprise was Hugues Messou, a 34-year-old of Ivorian who had been heading home on his bike when the shot hit him in the abdomen.

Having lived in the city for more than 10 years, Messou never knew it as a dangerous or hostile place, despite the occasional racist remark thrown at him.

Read more: Refugees in Italy get their hands dirty with own farm

“The car stopped for a few seconds ahead of me,” he told DW, “but I couldn’t see exactly who was inside. It was at least two people, around 30-years old, maybe older.” He filed a report at the local police station the following day. There are cameras about 200 meters down the road from the location of the incident.

“It was late at night, and it happened twice in the space of two days,” Messou said. “Whoever did it left the house with the intention of shooting a black person.”

The local police department has in the meantime responded to DW’s request for comment and confirmed that an investigation into Messou’s case is ongoing.

Two days before Messou’s shooting, a Nigerian woman had been hit by a pellet fired from a scooter on a nearby street, but had not reported the incident.

Hughes Messou says he never felt threatened in Forli and always considered it to be a safe and friendly city

“I was talking about what happened to me at the local bar, and that’s when it came up,” Messou said. “If they’re using guns, that’s worrying.”

In the past 50 days, at least nine people belonging to ethnic minorities have been reported shot and wounded across Italy. Eight of the attacks were carried out with BB guns — air-propelled guns whose round, metal bullets can nevertheless lead to serious injuries — and one with live bullets. One of the incidents involved a one-year-old Roma child who was shot in the back in Rome. The shooter, a government employee, would later tell police he had fired to “test the gun.”

The latest reported incident took place in Pistoia, Tuscany, on August 2, when two 13-year-old youngsters shot blanks at a Gambian man. Upon being identified by police, they claimed the act had just been a prank and “not racially or politically motivated.”

Well-known script

On June 11, two Malian refugees living in a reception center near Naples told local media they’d been shot at from a passing car while its occupants shouted slogans in support of Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister and leader of the far-right League party.

A month later in Latina, a city south of Rome, two Nigerians were hit by BB gunshots fired from a passing car. The perpetrators were later identified and reported to the police for bodily injury with the aggravating circumstance of racial discrimination.

In the same city at the end of July a man of Cape Verdean origins was hit in the back by a shot fired from a balcony while he was working on a scaffolding. Local media reported that the man responsible later told investigators he’d meant to hit a pigeon.

And in Naples earlier this month, a 32-year-old Senegalese street vendor, was shot at three times by two people on a scooter, this time with live bullets. One of the bullets hit him, fracturing his thighbone.

Is Italy’s populist government stoking anti-foreigner fears?

Serge Diomande is a member of the local council’s citizens’ committee in Forlì and chairman of Anolf, the National Association Beyond Borders. The Ivorian, who has lived in Italy for nearly 10 years and works as a warehouse keeper, says it’s hard to ignore what happened.

“Until [those responsible] are caught, we will always be in doubt,” he told DW. “We want to know who and why. This never happened here before. Forlì has always been a very open city,” he said. “Political parties shouldn’t play with migration. It’s like playing with Italian culture.”

Read more: Opinion: The problem is populism, not just Italy

Since taking up office on June 1, the coalition government, which comprises the far-right League and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, has been turning away boats rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean. Salvini also announced he would speed up deportations of illegal migrants.

The government has responded to accusations that its policies and rhetoric stoke up fears and legitimize violence by denying there is a problem. According to Salvini, racism is “an invention of the left.”

Journalist Luigi Mastrodonato has mapped more than 30 physical attacks on minorities across Italy from the beginning of June. Racism watchdog Cronache di Ordinario Razzismo (Chronicles of Ordinary Racism), part of the NGO Lunaria, published a report earlier this year that counted 169 discriminatory incidents in the first three months of the year.

Numbers only tell part of the story

There are no regular police figures on hate crime in Italy. The last available data from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights which monitors hate crime among participating countries, dates back to 2016, when the organization counted 803 instances of hate crime as reported by the police. The majority had their roots in racism or xenophobia.

When the police pursue cases, a racist background is not always recognized and is often played down, particularly when there are other possible or multiple motives. A day after the Italian election in March, a Senegalese street vendor, Idy Diene,was killed in Florence by a man who later claimed he had wanted to commit suicide but had, instead, turned his gun on a random person. Police categorized the killing as based on “trivial motives.”

In Aprilia, a city south of Rome, a Moroccan man was killed in a car chase in early August when three men, who later said they took him to be a thief, decided to take justice into their own hands. The circumstances of the killing are being investigated. The three deny any racial motive.

“Over time, we’ve seen a process of increasing legitimization of behavior that, in the best of cases, is of downright hostility and intolerance towards minorities,” said Grazia Naletto, head of Lunaria, which has been documenting and raising awareness of racism in Italy for the past 10 years.

“News reports from the past few weeks are concerning regardless of numbers because we are talking about physical assaults, in some cases serious ones. For some of these cases the authorities in charge of the investigation have not recognized the racial element. There is certainly a cultural, social and political climate in the country which tends to fan certain social behavior. We have seen it turn aggressive,” she told DW.

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ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA: CONFRONTING A NEW REALITY

ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA: CONFRONTING A NEW REALITY SECOND DAY ROSH HASHANAH SERMON 5778 – 2017 Rabbi Stephen Weiss, B’nai Jeshurun Congregation, Pepper Pike OH

At last count, Tanya Gersh had received 700 threatening, hateful and anti-Semitic messages. Even now, one arrives every few days. That may seem like a lot, but it isn’t. Not compared to before, when they came day and night. Neo-Nazis intimidated the secretaries who answered the phone at her husband’s office. They even tried to contact her 12-year-old son. One message read: “You have no idea what you are doing, six million are only the beginning.” Another read: “You are surprisingly easy to find on the internet… and in real life.”

The Gersh family had be living in fear since The Daily Stormer, Neo-Nazi website, started its harassment campaign eight months ago calling on its followers to intimidate Tanya, publishing her photo and phone number, her husband’s work address and her son’s Twitter handle. The harassment climaxed with a call by The Daily Stormer for an armed march through Tanya Gersh’s town of Whitefish, Montana. Attached to the promoting materials for the march was a photo of Auschwitz, decorated with swastikas and a yellow star, superimposed with images of Tanya Gersh, her son, the local Conservative rabbi and the husband of the local reform rabbi who heads a human rights group.

The march, thank God never materialized in Whitefish. But eight months later, Whitefish’s most notorious resident Neo-Nazi, Richard Spencer helped organize and lead the night march and rally which took place in Charlottesville, NC not long ago. Spencer drew national attention, you may recall, last November when he led a pro-Trump rally in a Nazi salute just after the election. He was joined in Charlottesville by David Duke, former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan as 250 white supremacists marched across the University of Virginia campus with tiki torches, deliberately evoking images of medieval mobs and of Klan cross burnings. Then an even larger number rallied the next day. Decades ago they would have marched with hoods to hide their identity, but this time they showed their faces proudly, unafraid, as they chanted, White Lives Matter, Go the F--- back to Africa, Blood and Soil, and The Jews Will Not replace Us.

Then, just last week, a synagogue in St. Louis gave shelter to African Americans protesting a police shooting. Jew-haters took to their social media accounts tweeting anti-Semitic attacks using the hashtag #gasthejews. The hashtag was used by so many people, tweeted and re-tweeted so many times on Twitter that it rose to be trending. Trending means it was one of the most used hashtags globally on the social media site: #gasthejews.

These three events stand out as among the most dramatic this year. But they do not stand in isolation. In 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation League, there was a 34% rise in anti-Semitic incidents. That’s one third more than the year before. In 2017 so far anti-Semitic incidents rose an astounding 86% over 2016. In just the first quarter of 2017 there were 386 incidents of harassment, 155 incidents of vandalism and six physical assaults, putting the year on pace to reach 2000 incidents by its end, here, in America.

For years we have been talking about the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe generally and especially in France and the UK. But at the same time, we have perhaps been in a bit of denial about the reality of the dramatic increase in Jew-hatred right here at home.

Many of us grew up in a time when we did not experience the same level of animosity as our parents. For us it is easy to forget stories we have heard from half a century ago about Father Coughlin’s hatred being spewed over the airwaves, or Henry Ford disseminating copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or the Nazi rally, complete with huge Nazi flags emblazoned with swastikas and ushers dressed as stormtroopers, that filled Madison Square Garden to overflowing in the 1930s. These events feel relegated to history. We live with the illusion that 21st century America has been freed of the fears and discrimination felt by previous generations of Jews.

But it has not. In a shocking article in Time Magazine after Charlottesville, Jon Meacham delineates a detailed history of white supremacist, Neo-Nazi and other hate groups in this country. I urge you to read it. It’s still available online. The upshot of his article is that the undercurrents of hatred in this country have never gone away and have remained a stronger and more pervasive force than we thought, just waiting for the right moment to surface.

So, the question is, now that it has indeed resurfaced, how do we respond to this new reality in which we live?

First, we must call out hatred wherever we see it. We can no longer afford to turn a blind eye. To do so is to risk being caught off guard when the moment comes that this hatred reaches a tipping point in this country.

Many of you will remember the bestselling book In the Garden of the Beasts, which recounts the experience of US Ambassador William Dodd and his family in Berlin in the years leading up to World War II. He came to Germany enamored of the glamor and excitement of Berlin’s social scene, and only slowly came to acknowledge and face the reality of a country descending into unbridled hate, discrimination and violence.

When he realized, he wrote missives back to his superiors in Washington warning them of what was happening, but they were not taken seriously. The West waited too long to get involved in the fight against the Nazis, and even then did too little too late to save Jewish lives.

Second, it is important that we recognize the extraordinary support that we do have from the majority of Americans. In Whitefish, Montana the town rallied around the Gersh family, placing pictures of a menorah in all their windows at Hanukkah time to express their Solidarity. In 2014 the city council passed an anti-discrimination ordinance. Many Whitefish businesses will not let Richard Spencer or his followers enter their doors. Following the events in Charlottesville 150 people gathered in Whitefish for a vigil to honor Charlottesville’s counter protesters. In Virginia, the Governor of Virginia made a statement that white supremacists should simply “leave this country.” As Rabbi Rosten of Whitefish said, “The world isn’t filled with hateful people.” This country is filled with a majority of good loving people who will stand with us. We need to reach out to them, to hold on to them, to support them, and to let them know how grateful we are for their support when we are in need.

Third, we must recognize that hatred is beyond politics. There is hatred and prejudice on both the right and the left. Some political leaders have found it expedient to look the other way when those who support their overall goals also spew hatred. Both conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans have allowed the banners of free speech and academic freedom to serve as a fig leaf for the spewing of hatred. Too many of us are too busy pointing fingers across the aisle, delighting in examples of how much the other side has failed rather than actively targeting the hate within their own parties.

Conservatives need to tackle the white nationalist elements within their camp and Liberals need to tackle the Pro-BDS elements that nurture anti-Semitism in their camp. Both elements in American politics foment anti-Semitism. As Jews, we must learn to stand for the Jewish people and for Jewish values first, and for American political factions second.

You know that when the Jews left Egypt, they crossed the Sea. The rabbis teach that crossing the Sea was a great moment of revelation when we experienced God most intensely. The people were united in spirit as they sang a song of thanks to God at the Sea. And then immediately after, they complained that they had no food and no water. They became rancorous and divisive… and that is when Amalek attacked. Our enemies attack us when we are divided, when we separate from each other and attack each other.

In contrast, at Sinai the Torah says vayichan sham – that the whole people were one, united in heart and mind at Mount Sinai. It was because we were united that we merited the receiving of the Torah and God’s spirit. We have to stand together as Jews first before all else.

Finally, we must recognize that, as Martin Luther King famously wrote from the Birmingham Jail, Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. The battle against anti-Semitism cannot stand in isolation from the battles against hatred of blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, homosexuals, transgender people, Muslims, immigrants, refugees, those of a different socio-economic class or any other group. Rallying cries of the white supremacists in Whitefish and Charlottesville should remind us that when any of us are in the cross-hairs of hate, we all are. If to the haters there is no distinction, then to us there can be no distinction either.

Pastor Martin Niemoller was a Lutheran pastor in Germany. He opposed the Weimar republic and welcomed Hitler’s rise to power. Even when persecutions first began he did not defend the Jews. On the contrary, he sheltered and protected baptized Christians who were persecuted by the Nazis because they were descended from Jews. But as for the Jews themselves? In one sermon in 1935, he remarked: "What is the reason for [their] obvious punishment, which has lasted for thousands of years? Dear brethren, the reason is easily given: the Jews brought the Christ of God to the cross."

It was only later, when Niemoller himself was pursued by the Nazis, that he understood the error of his ways. I know you recognize these words that he wrote:

First, they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

This morning we read the story of the near sacrifice of Isaac. There are many beautiful interpretations of the meaning of this story. On the one hand, it is at its most basic level a rejection of the ancient practice of child sacrifice. At the same time, we also see it as a demonstration of Abraham’s loyalty to God, of his willingness to sacrifice even that which is most precious to him. Abraham’s story is meant both to inspire our faith and sacrifice and to remind God of Abraham’s devotion. We pray that if we are unworthy of God’s forgiveness and blessings, God should look favorably upon us for Abraham’s sake, because we are his progeny.

But generations of Jews over thousands of years saw something else in this saga. Isaac became a literary stand-in for the Jewish people His near sacrifice was seen as a stand-in for the near decimation of the Jewish people who were martyred again and again by those who could not abide by our very existence.

Indeed, there is one particularly disturbing midrash in which Isaac is really, actually sacrificed. His life taken, he dies on the altar and then the angel resurrects him. Some scholars have seen in this a parallel to Christianity but they miss the point of this midrash in which Isaac is a symbol of the entire Jewish people which will descend from him. Time and again, we as a nation have faced utter destruction but like a phoenix we always rise again from the ashes. The author of this midrash was expressing his faith in the indestructible nature of the Jewish people.

I’ve often quoted Professor Jonathan Sarna who likes to talk about the cover of a 1966 issue of Look Magazine that featured a story titled, “The Vanishing Jew.” Dr. Sarna is fond of saying, “And look at that! Look Magazine has vanished, and the Jews are still here!”

We will always be here. That’s Gods promise to us. Like the moon that renews its cycle month after month, vanishing in the darkness and then reappearing, shining its light, God promises us that, no matter what difficulties we face, God will lift us up and restore us to our glory.

But we have to do our part too. We have to stand against hatred wherever we see it. We must stand against hatred of Jews and stand against hatred of others. We have to demonstrate to the world the meaning of true love of humanity, what it means that we are all children of one God, that we share together a common fate and destiny.

It’s because of that commitment that we are disliked by those who hate us. Let us hold that banner aloft proudly, standing for the values of Torah, the love of humanity and the service of God.

May we see the day when hatred will cease in our midst and the world can truly be filled with love, ad let us say: Amen.

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These are the words that encapsulate 2016

LONDON It’s been an fateful time. From Britain voting to leave the European Union to Donald Trump being elected president of the United States. No one can accuse 2016 of being monotonou. Some words and terms grew in standing during the past twelve months, some new words were invented and some existing messages amassed fresh sense. Here’s a selection of the words that encapsulate 2016.

Alt-Right

Alt-right is a word used to described various groups including white supremacists and white-hot patriots who situate a focus on “preserving” and “protecting” the white hasten in the United States. It has been described as a mixture of racism, white patriotism and populism and exists online( in the form of molestation and hate memes) and IRL.

In November, a video published under The Atlantic showed the founder and ideologue of the alt-right Richard B. Spencer, wailing “Hail Trump, acclaim our people, herald victory”. It made heated reaction on social media because of the stark parallel to Holocaust history.

The so called “alt-right” movement backed Donald Trump during the presidential election though Trump himself said he forswears and denounce them.

Brexit

On 23 June, Britain voted to leave the European Union by 52 percentage to 48 percentage. In the consequence, the value of the pound dropped to a 30 -year low-pitched. Prime Minister David Cameron abdicated, the first political fatality in “whats being” arguably be described as the year that anti-establishment politics travelled mainstream. Meanwhile, Nigel Farage, governor of the UK Independence Party( and foremost Leave campaigner) acclaimed the referendum solutionsas the UK’s “independence day.”

Final causes on our Lego Brexit map. Blue expanses voted be retained in the EU; cherry-red localities voted to leave. #EURefResults pic.twitter.com/ cJfzBNsY6y

Mashable UK (@ MashableUK) June 24, 2016

Bigly

One of the many verbal mysteries of Donald Trump during the campaign was whether he was saying “bigly” or “big league”.

Trump on immigration: “We’re going to speed up the process bigly.” #DebateNight pic.twitter.com/ Sc8w2QSPGV

Mashable News (@ MashableNews) October 20, 2016

Linguists weighed in. Susan Lin, an helper linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, posted her definitive answer to the linguist Facebook group Friends of Berkeley Linguistics.

“‘Bigly’ or ‘big league’? The latter, I’m quite sure, ” Lin said.

Barb( Stranger Things)

Barb’s atrocious fatality was one of the most debated Tv deaths this year, contributing scores of Stranger Things fans to ask: will there be right for Barb?

The Netflix series, been developed by friends Matt and Ross Duffer, became one of the biggest pictures this summer. Set in a small town in Indiana in 1983, just after a 12 -year-old boy reputation Will goes missing, the eight-episode succession peculiarity a top-class child ensemble that provoked a religion following.

Image: Netflix

Unfortunately, the show’s architects confirmed that Barb, last-place discovered dead after a being grasped her while she was sitting on a pool’s diving committee, is genuinely dead. Although it looks like she’ll get some sort of justice in Stranger Things 2.

Coulrophobia

Coulrophobia is defined as a rare, extreme or irrational fear of comics. This summer the suspicion reached another level.

Clown sightings started in Greenville, South Carolina, where groupings of clowns apparently tried to entice kids into a thicket of trees outside an apartment complex. Similar sightings spread up to North Carolina, where a male said he chased a clown into a forest with a machete.

From there, the fear of jesters increased and eventually increased across the pond .

Here’s a map of all the sightings.

Image: Mashable/ google maps

Dabbing

Dabbing, or the Dab, is an Atlanta-based hip-hop dance that was disseminated by Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton during his MVP 2015 -1 6 NFL season.

Originally used to describe a flesh of marijuana application, the word ‘dabbing’ went on to have a second meaning in 2016.

The dance originated in Atlanta, where a handful of rappers, most notably rap group Migos and frequent traitors Jose Guapo, Skippa Da Flippa, and PeeWee Longway, popularized dabbing in their music videos and mixtapes.

The dance acquired it to social media, where people shared Vines and videos of themselves thumping the dab.

Later in 2016, Newton testified the Dab dead, saying: “I have to put that aside.”

Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers establishes his logo “dab” against the Seattle Seahawks in the 2nd part during the NFC Divisional Playoff Game at Bank of America Stadium on January 17, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Image: Getty Images

Fake news

After the victory of Donald Trump, Facebook came under ardor from the public and the media for its perceived persona in helping the spread of “fake news” during the U.S. ballot. Tallies of beings in locations as remote as Macedonia created fake word sites and churned bogus pro-Trump word that sprang up on the programme. In the final three months, imitation referendum stories caused more engagement than top floors from major report outlets.

Image: ap photo

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially said the company “must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of actuality ourselves.” But then he announced that Facebook was looking to implement “better technological systems” to see fake bulletin, including asking useds to help identify misleading stories.

Fake news had real-world results. In early December, the #Pizzagate hoax led to a gunman firing shootings inside a eatery, which was embroiled in the conspiracy. The gunman, 28 -year-old, Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury, North Carolina, was apprehended after participating Comet Ping Pong forearmed with an attack rifle and burning a shot.

Welch claimed he was investigating conspiracy conjectures about Hillary Clinton and safarus chairwoman John Podesta running small children sex trafficking ring inside of the pizzeria.Though The New York Times debunked the story back in November, the buzz generated on social media continued.

Glass cliff

“Glass cliff” was among Oxford Dictionaries’ terms of the year. Fabricated by S. Alexander Haslam and Michelle Ryan, glass cliff is used to refer to a situation in which a woman or a member of a marginalized group “ascends to a leader posture, defying cases when health risks of failure is high.” The current UK Prime Minister Theresa May fits this description.

Theresa May at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, October

Image: Getty images

Harambe

Harambe is the gorilla who was shot and killed in August after grabbing a 4-year-old boy and dragging him across an exhibit in Cincinnati Zoo.

The incident was criticised online by many who accused the child’s parents and the zoo for Harambe’s death. Three months after Harambe’s death, beings were still attacking the zoo with coarse texts, petitions and protest memes.

The trolling was so hard that it action the zoo to remove its social media accounts.

If you think you have it bad, be happy you don’t guide the Cincinnati Zoo Twitter chronicle. pic.twitter.com/ Ygpc2PWYeM

Anth (@ __Kessel) August 20, 2016

Headphone jack

Apple’s annualiPhone launch always touches the mobile world like a glossy glassmeteor, but the newiPhone 7 had an aftershock this is gonna be felt for years: the removal of the headphone jack.

Image: AP/ RICHARD DREW

Despite being a near-universal standard being implemented in devices worldwide, the eminently functional3. 5mm jack couldn’t survive Apple’s determination to shape thefuture one where audio is wireless. In the current, nonetheless, lines still rule, and Apple’s big move has given us all dongles to misplace, basically mainstreaming disadvantage.( It’s likewise forcinggrown adults to say the word”dongle.”) Whether you call that mettle or hubris , Apple has put a stake in the soil, one other smartphone producers will steer around, or perhaps trip over, for years to come. Pete Pachal, Mashable Tech Editor.

Hodor!( Game of Thrones)

Hodor had been among the first Tv anguishes( and revelations) of the year and certainly the hardest to forget.

Game of Thrones followers learned the inceptions of Hodor in a zombie-filled conclusion that ended with the soothing giant being swarmed by a rabble as he held a opening to shield Bran.

Hodor= “Hold the Door”. This certainly changed the room GoT followers experienced about holding the door.

HOLD THE DOOR HOLD THE DOO HOLD THE DO HOLD THE D HOLD THE HOLD TH HOLD T HOLD HOL HO H HO HOD HODO HODOR

Chora Minha Nega (@ guip) May 23, 2016

Islamophobia

Reports of Islamophobia and racist happens spiked in the consequences of the the Brexit referendum. From 16 -3 0 June, the reporting of hate crimes went up by 42% to more than 3,000 charges. The reported felonies mainly consisted of persecution and menaces against “visible minorities” as well as people from Eastern Europe.

Twitter useds documented prejudiced chapters on the programme, use hashtags like #postbrexitracism and #postrefracism. On Facebook, an book announced “Worrying Signs” curated reported incidents.

The burkini ban in some French coastal municipalities too rekindled controversy beyond France’s borders. Many people regarded the prohibitions as sexist, Islamophobic and counterproductive to welcoming Muslims into the country. The outlaw had now been been overruled in some municipalities. An illustrator from Paris created a steer for bystanders who meet Muslims who are being harassed.

Image: maeril.tumblr.com

In the aftermath of the U.S. election, some Muslim maidens uttered fear that they may be targeted by hate crimes.Many took to social media to caution Muslim females not to wear the hijab, niqab or burka in public. These panics were validated as women in the U.S. were apparently targeted in hate crimes following Donald Trump’s election.

Latinx

According to the Oxford Dictionaries, Latinx was first used in response to an important matter around gender identity. How can a language like Spanish, in which nouns and adjectives have grammatical gender, be used in a gender inclusive channel?

Latinx replaces the gendered ‘a’ or ‘o’ pointing with ‘x’. Its still uncommon, but widely used on American university campuses.

Lemonade

Lemonade was one of the few lustrous events in an otherwise gruesome year. Beyonces visual album, which debuted in April, is both an ode to black women and a deep personal love story, told in 11 evenly earnest chapters. Some chapters hollered “I came to slay, bitch.” Others were so specific and pointed in their anger that some wondered if Jay Z and Beyonce were getting divorced .

Image: Beyonce

Featuring candidly beautiful verses from the Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, the book is a dazzlingly complex project in which pop culture meets spirituality, gratifies vulnerability. Scenes from the album have become religion, and quite rightly so, such as the one in which Beyonce is covered in a yellowish nightgown and golden jewelry, opens doubled doorways to tell the liquid flow on the stairs. After a bit son sides her a baseball bat, Beyonce is off, destroying automobiles and cameras, crushing open a fire hydrant and twirling in its water.

So potent was the panorama and the entire book that the University of Texas at San Antonio decided to offer students the opportunity to sign up for a class announced Black Women, Beyonc& Popular Culture.” Students who take the course will invest the semester searching the singer’s visual album, Lemonade , and its relation to black feminism. Isnt that everyones dream?

Nasty wives

In the final presidential conversation, Hillary Clinton, while discussing Donald Trumps tax pays, was interrupted by the Republican nominee who said, leaning into the mic: such a nasty woman.

The phrase, uttered so soon after Trump roundly contended that no one has more respect for women than him, speedily became a trending hashtag. #NastyWoman took over Twitter and soon became a war cry for numerous women.

Twitter user @thecultureofme even acknowledged to buying the world’s most delightful domain name, NastyWomenGetShitDone.com , then configuring the sheet to redirect to Hillary Clinton’s officer website. And Will Ferrell boasted a Nasty Woman T-shirt in support of the democrat.

Pokemon become

In a year of unlikely resuscitations and throwbacks Pokmon Go took “the worlds” by squall. It was just the perfect make for those who grew up in the 1990 s and had fond childhood retentions of the insanely successful Game Boy tournament . The conclude Pokmon Go is so cunning, though, is that it’s all tied to the real world .

The app trails your site IRL, which means you hunting and catch Pokmon on the same system of roads and parks that you’re walking through in real life. PokStops( where you stock up on items) are linked to real world places like local post office, and gyms( where you contend competitive Pokmon coaches i.e. other people playing video games) are happenings like religions and train stations in the real world.

Soon after it the app was wheeled out, pokmania spread all over the world . And its not over. On Monday, government officials Pokmon Go account shared the exciting word that brand-new Generation II Pokmon have been added to the game.

Post-Truth

The annual Oxford Dictionaries “word of the year” can divulge a lot about the world we live in. And this year it’s very telling. Post-truth is defined as an adjective “relating to or designating cases in which objective points are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to ardour and personal belief”. Over such courses of 2016, mentions of the word snowballed in the framework of Brexit and the US presidential election. Read more about the sources of the word here.

Post-truth is the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016. Find out more: https :// t.co/ jxETqZMxsu pic.twitter.com/ MVMuMyf8 3K

Oxford Dictionaries (@ OxfordWords) November 16, 2016

Peach emoji

The peach emoji when it looked like a butt.

When Apple exhausted the first beta form of iOS 10.2, numerous people were frantic because of an update on the peach emoji, which appeared more like a normal peach and less like a butt.

noooooo they’re changing the peach emoji pic.twitter.com/ CmHkef9MlM

alix (@ freckledbutt) November 1, 2016

Thankfully, after some serious internet backlash, Apple appears to have redesigned the emoji to to once again resemble a butt.

Spectacles( Snapchat )

The brand-new smart sunglasses , rolled out in November, furnish a whole new ordeal in snapping, earmarking filming in terms of the user.

The product is sold in interactive vending machine announced Snapbots , in very limited quantities throughout the US. Instead of selling them online or in stores, Snap Inc. is exploiting the vending machine, along with an interactive map, to drive the Spectacles promotion train.

Since the launch they’ve been used everywhere from in the sack to in surgery.

Surreal

While “post-truth” was Oxford Dictionaries parole of its first year, “surreal” was Merriam-Webster’s 2016 word of its first year .~ ATAGEND Defined by the dictionary as “marked by the intense irrational actuality of a dreaming, ” “surreal” is a relatively new word in English, having been first is contained in the dictionary in 1967.

Never before have so many beings felt compelled to look it up on their dictionary as they did in 2016. Terrorist strikes in Brussels and Nice and the struggled takeover in Turkey were the tragic events that led to a spike in the numbers looking up the word. But the most significant spike was after the US election in November.

Trolls

Image: ap photo

From Reddit’s CEO to the Royal Family, everyone this year had to deal with the rise of the trolls.

Trolling is a phenomenon as old because the internet and it gained renown during the U.S. poll.

An military of so called “alt-right” trolls was already a significant online violence before Americans cast their votes. After Donald Trump was elected president, they made it clear they were not about to go back to the dark angles of the internet from where they came from.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman had his own headaches around the trolls. He riled Reddit users after declaring changing abusive posts about him to mention the moderators of Reddits biggest pro-Trump subreddit, r/ the_donald. I abused my capability to give the bullies a hard time, he said.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Image: pa

Even the Royal Family had to deal with the racist and sexist trolling of Prince Harrys girlfriend Meghan Markle . In November, Kensington Palace said in a statement that Harry’s girlfriend has been subject to a “wave of abuse and harassment”.

Woke

Woke was used in 2016 in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, often in hashtags like #StayWoke. But its own history is much older. As is attributable to Nicole Holliday in the Oxford Dictionaries blog, the word originated in the black community in the mid 20 th century with the implications of being is cognizant of social systems of pitch-black oppression.

In 1962, woke was shall be included in a lexicon of African American slang with the description ‘well-informed, up-to-date”. “By the following decade, we have evidence of it being used in a more explicit political situation, ” Holliday explains.

In a 1972 romp entitled Garvey Lives !, generator Barry Beckham writes. I been sleeping all “peoples lives”. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, Im gon stay woke. And Im gon help him wake up other pitch-black folk

Image: VICKY LETA/ MASHABLE

After the Trayvon Martin slay in 2013 and the Black Lives Matter movement, awake has made a comeback though sometimes it has been used inappropriately in non-political, ludicrous tweets.

” Woke has been racially cleaned for a mainstream gathering. Woke has been removed from its ties to black communities as well as its reference to black consciousness and political motions, ” says Holliday in her blog.

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The great anti-Semitism panic of 2017: A response to Rob Eshman

A police officer blocks an entrance as officials respond to a bomb threat at the Jewish Community Center in Louisville, Ky., on March 8. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters)

Writing in the Jewish Journal, editor-in-chief Rob Eshman accuses me of being an “apologist” for anti-Semitism because of the piece I wrote about Jewish panic over Trump. Let’s go through his critique, shall we?

First, Eshman claims that American Jews aren’t “panicking” because they haven’t closed Jewish schools, turned Jewish institutions into armed camps or turned in their kippahs. True, but there are levels of panic. Many Jews have withdrawn their children from Jewish Community Center preschools, so much so that some JCCs are undertaking emergency fundraising campaigns to make up for the lost revenue. More generally — and you can see several examples in the comments to my original piece — it’s commonplace for Jewish liberals to analogize the current situation to 1933. That’s completely paranoid and insane, and a sign of panic.

Eshman continues, “True, some Jewish leaders asserted that anti-Semitic acts are at a level not seen in America since the 1930’s, which is highly debatable.” That’s not highly debatable, it’s obviously false and absurd, and the fact that Eshman considers it “highly debatable” is itself a sign of panic.

Next, Eshman contends that I attack “a fake Jewish response in order to defend the real Donald Trump.” As regular readers know, I have long been a never-Trumper. My views on Trump haven’t changed. That doesn’t mean I have lost my ability to spot a panic.

In my article, I pointed out that routine claims that Stephen K. Bannon’s Breitbart News is a white supremacist anti-Semitic site is belied by the articles Breitbart actually publishes about Jews, anti-Semitism and Israel. Eshman retorts that his own concerns about Breitbart “had nothing to do with individual articles. Indeed, some of Breitbart.com’s best friends and editors are Jewish.” Rather, his concern is that Breitbart has “fomented and reaffirmed through its coverage and comments a deep antagonism toward Jews.” No, it hasn’t done so through its “coverage”; Eshman just acknowledged that Breitbart’s articles are not anti-Jewish, and the articles more generally reflect mainstream conservative views.

The comments section, by contrast, is an unmoderated sewer that does contain a great deal of anti-Semitism. Is that a matter of concern? Sure. I more generally find Bannon’s ethno-nationalism and “no enemies on the right” mentality troubling, and not just because of how it might legitimize anti-Semitism. But none of that makes Bannon himself, or Breitbart News, anti-Semitic. Eshman invokes the authority of Ben Shapiro, so allow me to quote Mr. Shapiro:

I’ve been as critical of Steve Bannon as anybody in the media. I was the first critic of Bannon because when I left Breitbart in March, I specifically named Bannon as a nefarious influence at Breitbart, by name. And yet, I was forced last week to defend Steve Bannon. I think that he’s a terrible person. But because the left can’t just say, “This is a guy who made way for the alt-right, which is quite terrible, and he’s doing a real disservice to the nature of the country by doing so.” The left had to accuse him personally of racism and anti-Semitism, and they had to overstep. This is the big mistake.

You want to empower the alt-right? Keep overstepping. Again, it’s the overstepping by the left that’s driving people into this almost white tribalism. It’s really negative. I hate tribalism on all sides—I hate it on the left and I hate it on the right—and what I’m seeing is that increase across the board.

Eshman acknowledges, as I noted, that there is no available data suggesting that Trump’s supporters are more anti-Semitic than the voting public as a whole. His response? “Data would be great, we all love data. In the meantime, the lack of numbers doesn’t negate well-documented racist and anti-semitic acts perpetrated as Donald Trump ascended to nominee and then president.” Yeah, but without “data” we have no idea how many of those acts were perpetrated by Trump supporters, or whether they represent a meaningful if any increase from the thousands of anti-Semitic acts perpetrated in the Unite States while Barack Obama was president.

Eshman next quotes a left-wing hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, for the proposition that Trump unleashed a wave of hatred against a wide variety of groups, including Jews. I don’t take anything the SPLC says seriously, but in any event none of the specific acts listed have anything to do with Jews. Eshman asks, “Is all this anti-Semitism?” He answers: “Not always.” Actually, not at all. And I agree with Eshman, as I stated right at the beginning of my piece, that Jews are understandably concerned when ethno-nationalism rears its ugly head in general. But “understandably concerned” is a far cry from “believing it’s 1933 all over again.”

Eshman also rejects my criticism of Anti-Defamation League president Jonathan Greenblatt, challenging me to provide an example of when Greenblatt has been unduly partisan. My actual criticism of Greenblatt is that he has stirred panic about right-wing anti-Semitism through exaggerated rhetoric, such as the aforementioned claim that the level of anti-Semitic discourse in the United States today is the greatest since the 1930s. But since Eshman asked, one could write a whole paper about Greenblatt’s partisanship, starting with his announcement last March that the ADL was redirecting the money Donald Trump had donated over the years to the organization to “specifically into anti-bias education programs that address exactly the kind of stereotyping and scapegoating he has injected into this political season.”

Finally, Eshman claims that no one is the Jewish organizational world is not concerned “over the relatively minute amounts of ‘Arab’ immigrants coming to America. (Bernstein uses Arab to mean Muslim, though of course not all Arabs are Muslims).”

First, no, I meant Arab, and I linked to data about anti-Semitism in Arab countries. I don’t know of any data that suggests that Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian Christians are any less anti-Semitic than are their Muslim compatriots. Muslim extremism is a separate, though intertwined, topic.

Second, of course people in the Jewish organizational world are (privately) concerned about this. They would have to be fools not to be, given (a) that Arab migrants and their descendants in Western Europe are responsible for an overwhelming percentage of anti-Semitic violence there, including murders at Jewish schools and stores, and attacks on Jews on the street; (b) that many violent incidents against Jews in the United States have been undertaken by Arab immigrants, including the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990, the murder of a Hasidic boy on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, a shooting at the El Al terminal at LAX in 2002, and a plot to attack New York synagogues in 2011; and © the role that Students for Justice in Palestine, dominated by Arab students, has played in fomenting anti-Semitism on American college campuses. And the phrase “changing demographics” is used to refer to the threat of Arab (and Muslim) anti-Semitism, including by ADL director Abe Foxman here, and in a report by the American Jewish Congress in 2008, in which it notes that opponents of anti-Semitism in the United States will have to deal with demographic changes, including “the shrinkage of the American Jewish population and the growth of other groups (including Muslims and Arabs).”

Eshman adds that various Jewish organizations are reaching out to Muslim organizations to cooperate on issues of mutual interest and create mutual goodwill. That’s great, I support such efforts and hope they are successful. I have nothing against either Arabs or Muslims and would like nothing better than for the Jewish American and Arab American communities to coexist in harmony. But it’s ridiculous to pretend that if one is concerned about anti-Semitism in the United States, one shouldn’t be concerned about large-scale immigration to the United States from places where virulent anti-Semitism is nearly universal. Maybe that means that it’s Eshman who is the actual anti-Semitism apologist?

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The great anti-Semitism panic of 2017: A response to Rob Eshman

A police officer blocks an entrance as officials respond to a bomb threat at the Jewish Community Center in Louisville, Ky., on March 8. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters)

Second, of course people in the Jewish organizational world are (privately) concerned about this. They would have to be fools not to be, given (a) that Arab migrants and their descendants in Western Europe are responsible for an overwhelming percentage of anti-Semitic violence there, including murders at Jewish schools and stores, and attacks on Jews on the street; (b) that many violent incidents against Jews in the United States have been undertaken by Arab immigrants, including the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990, the murder of a Hasidic boy on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, a shooting at the El Al terminal at LAX in 2002, and a plot to attack New York synagogues in 2011; and (c) the role that Students for Justice in Palestine, dominated by Arab students, has played in fomenting anti-Semitism on American college campuses. And the phrase “changing demographics” is used to refer to the threat of Arab (and Muslim) anti-Semitism, including by ADL director Abe Foxman here, and in a report by the American Jewish Congress in 2008, in which it notes that opponents of anti-Semitism in the United States will have to deal with demographic changes, including “the shrinkage of the American Jewish population and the growth of other groups (including Muslims and Arabs).”

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Three Indian Americans have been targeted in hate crimes in the past few days. Srinivas Kuchibhotla was fatally shot in Kansas, Harnish Patel was killed in South Carolina and now Deep Rai was shot at, in Seattle. Deep Rai is a Sikh, and reportedly the partially masked gunman said “Go back to your country” to him, before shooting.

In the ten days following Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States, as many as 867 “hate incidents” were reported to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which the US advocacy group termed as a “national outbreak of hate.” In recent days, though high-profile incidents have been reported in the media, the number of such reports to SPLC has declined.

But wait a minute. “This movement is in the top of the first inning,” remarked Steve Brannon, the “president” behind the president who thinks “darkness is good… Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.”

Top of the first inning is baseball lingo and I delve in this favourite pastime of America to seek some answers. American football politics might not work given the Super Bowl still uses Roman numerals instead of Arabic, but let's give it a go.

Baseball player compositions have changed since the Jackie Robinson era. 70 years ago, the only place where a black man could swing a bat at a white man, and get away with it, was in the “Field of Dreams” in Brooklyn, New York. Baseball now is more global than American football, and minorities (Hispanics, blacks, Asians, in % order) are about 40% of the Major League baseball players.

Brexit and Trump have already become a reality and with Le Penn just around the corner, there is no doubt that right-populism is going global.

The Ipsos MORI poll which tracks percentages of people who think their country is on the wrong track. Their latest poll is quite revealing: USA (63), Britain (60), Australia (57), Canada (47), and India (26). Of the aforesaid five nations, in USA and India, the top worry is terrorism. And that is what the “haters” now in charge of policies are fueling via “Muslim ban” and “ICE-forced deportations.”

All indicators point to a possibility that in their upcoming elections during 2017, the Germans, the French, and the Dutch may elect populist far-right governments. And that’s just in Europe.

Back to Trump, since that phenomenon is going global. Let’s first understand the South Asian minority “leaders” of President Trump. Shalabh Kumar is of Indian Hindu descent; he is a “powerbroker” industrialist backed by the ruling far-right Indian government. Whereas Jesse Singh is of Indian Sikh descent and Sajid Tarar of Pakistani Muslim descent; both have negligible support in their respective communities and belong in the “token” or “photo-op” categories. Jesse Singh had also rendered a Sikh prayer at President Trump’s inauguration ceremony, along with some other “leaders” from different faiths, lending it an ecumenical aura.

In the same vein, globally minority leaders, without consultation of the communities they represent, are making absolute policy statements which come across as pandering to the populist right and without any doctrinal basis. For example, Bawa Singh Jagdev’s (National Sikh Council of Australia) statement that same-sex marriage will “destroy the whole human race” has no Sikh doctrinal basis. Rather, it counters the very notion of “Ik Oankar” (One Force that radiates in all) which forms the basis for zero tolerance for bias due to race, gender, sexuality, belief, etc. And of course, he cites no Sikh survey conducted in Australia to gauge the community sentiment.

Immigration has become a major concern worldwide. In the US, the visa ban targeting Muslims has already been deemed illegal by its courts. India’s far-right Modi government is meddling with 1955 Citizenship bill which deems Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan as “persons belonging to minority communities” who “shall not be treated as illegal migrants for purposes of this Act.” The current Citizenship amendment bill is targeted towards, you guessed it, Muslims.

It has been a month since President Trump’s inauguration; I suppose the bottom of the first inning is over. Hate events continue to evoke sentiment and enrage sections of the community. Even South Asians are organising beyond the conventional “brown-folk” minority stereotype as part of the ‘Resistance’. And so too are United Colors of America with Love: gender, ethnic, and religious minorities in partnership with the majority white privileged ones. An atypical American Resistance! Recall “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” where it successfully demonstrated evidence-based approach conquers the flawed insiders? That minority-majority complex is something that is being replicated worldwide.

In Panjab’s context, which can also be extrapolated to the whole global North and South, poet Surjit Patar proclaims, that the responsibility to identify the villain rests with people:

When do I say demanding justice is not right?

When do I dissuade you from waging a fight?

To identify the foe is so essential,

To get mutilated without reason is futile.

And he draws attention to change transcending all conflicts:

Thrones did last, but not forever,

People betrayed, but not forever,

Drip by drip flows the water,

Urge to change is subdued,

But inevitable is the change.

A month of Trumpism in command has seen utter chaos in governance. Cultural icons, mental health professionals, journalists, policy-makers, conservatives and liberals are all converging on this thought: Donald Trump is not fit to be the president of the US. In baseball terms, it is the beginning of the second innings, when will the umpire (the Judiciary) and the manager (the Republicans) change the player? And this ‘stranger-than-fiction-reality-game’ in Washington is being played with hate and lies. This game may be shorter since it is incessantly interrupted by bad weather-temperament, the newest target being the free press. Who will be around for the seventh inning stretch?

Darkness must be addressed.

A Jedi trains to confront Vader. The Jedi Order values wisdom, the Light. They are teachers, philosophers, scientists, engineers, physicians, diplomats and warriors, who join the Rebellion to fight the Empire.

Jaswant Singh Khalra, Jedi of our times, remarked in Canada before his extrajudicial killing in India:

There is a fable that when the Sun was setting for the first time … the light was decreasing … and the signs of Darkness were appearing … Darkness set its foot on the earth, but it is said — far away, in some hut, one little Lamp lifted his head. It proclaimed, ‘I challenge the Darkness. If nothing else, then at least around myself, I will not let it settle. Around myself, I will establish Light.’ And … watching that one Lamp, in other huts, other Lamps arose. And the world was amazed that these Lamps stopped Darkness from expanding so that people could see.

Recognise the darkness of ignorance within you, your vicinity. Use your intellect, wealth, and strength to access the light, and allow the light to enter you, to enlarge you.

The Light brings out Love: the love that shapes a collective will.

And yes, eventually, love does trump hate.

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These are the words that encapsulate 2016

Alt-Right

The so called “alt-right” movement backed Donald Trump during the presidential election though Trump himself said he forswears and denounce them.

Brexit

Final causes on our Lego Brexit map. Blue expanses voted be retained in the EU; cherry-red localities voted to leave. #EURefResults pic.twitter.com/ cJfzBNsY6y

Mashable UK (@ MashableUK) June 24, 2016

Bigly

One of the many verbal mysteries of Donald Trump during the campaign was whether he was saying “bigly” or “big league”.

Trump on immigration: “We’re going to speed up the process bigly.” #DebateNight pic.twitter.com/ Sc8w2QSPGV

Mashable News (@ MashableNews) October 20, 2016

“‘Bigly’ or ‘big league’? The latter, I’m quite sure, ” Lin said.

Barb( Stranger Things)

Barb’s atrocious fatality was one of the most debated Tv deaths this year, contributing scores of Stranger Things fans to ask: will there be right for Barb?

Image: Netflix

Coulrophobia

Coulrophobia is defined as a rare, extreme or irrational fear of comics. This summer the suspicion reached another level.

From there, the fear of jesters increased and eventually increased across the pond .

Here’s a map of all the sightings.

Image: Mashable/ google maps

Dabbing

Dabbing, or the Dab, is an Atlanta-based hip-hop dance that was disseminated by Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton during his MVP 2015 -1 6 NFL season.

Originally used to describe a flesh of marijuana application, the word ‘dabbing’ went on to have a second meaning in 2016.

The dance acquired it to social media, where people shared Vines and videos of themselves thumping the dab.

Later in 2016, Newton testified the Dab dead, saying: “I have to put that aside.”

Image: Getty Images

Fake news

Image: ap photo

Glass cliff

Theresa May at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, October

Image: Getty images

Harambe

Harambe is the gorilla who was shot and killed in August after grabbing a 4-year-old boy and dragging him across an exhibit in Cincinnati Zoo.

The trolling was so hard that it action the zoo to remove its social media accounts.

If you think you have it bad, be happy you don’t guide the Cincinnati Zoo Twitter chronicle. pic.twitter.com/ Ygpc2PWYeM

Anth (@ __Kessel) August 20, 2016

Headphone jack

Apple’s annualiPhone launch always touches the mobile world like a glossy glassmeteor, but the newiPhone 7 had an aftershock this is gonna be felt for years: the removal of the headphone jack.

Image: AP/ RICHARD DREW

Hodor!( Game of Thrones)

Hodor had been among the first Tv anguishes( and revelations) of the year and certainly the hardest to forget.

Game of Thrones followers learned the inceptions of Hodor in a zombie-filled conclusion that ended with the soothing giant being swarmed by a rabble as he held a opening to shield Bran.

Hodor= “Hold the Door”. This certainly changed the room GoT followers experienced about holding the door.

HOLD THE DOOR HOLD THE DOO HOLD THE DO HOLD THE D HOLD THE HOLD TH HOLD T HOLD HOL HO H HO HOD HODO HODOR

Chora Minha Nega (@ guip) May 23, 2016

Islamophobia

Twitter useds documented prejudiced chapters on the programme, use hashtags like #postbrexitracism and #postrefracism. On Facebook, an book announced “Worrying Signs” curated reported incidents.

Image: maeril.tumblr.com

Latinx

Latinx replaces the gendered ‘a’ or ‘o’ pointing with ‘x’. Its still uncommon, but widely used on American university campuses.

Lemonade

Image: Beyonce

Nasty wives

In the final presidential conversation, Hillary Clinton, while discussing Donald Trumps tax pays, was interrupted by the Republican nominee who said, leaning into the mic: such a nasty woman.

Pokemon become

Post-Truth

Post-truth is the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016. Find out more: https :// t.co/ jxETqZMxsu pic.twitter.com/ MVMuMyf8 3K

Oxford Dictionaries (@ OxfordWords) November 16, 2016

Peach emoji

The peach emoji when it looked like a butt.

When Apple exhausted the first beta form of iOS 10.2, numerous people were frantic because of an update on the peach emoji, which appeared more like a normal peach and less like a butt.

noooooo they’re changing the peach emoji pic.twitter.com/ CmHkef9MlM

alix (@ freckledbutt) November 1, 2016

Thankfully, after some serious internet backlash, Apple appears to have redesigned the emoji to to once again resemble a butt.

Spectacles( Snapchat )

The brand-new smart sunglasses , rolled out in November, furnish a whole new ordeal in snapping, earmarking filming in terms of the user.

Since the launch they’ve been used everywhere from in the sack to in surgery.

Surreal

Trolls

Image: ap photo

From Reddit’s CEO to the Royal Family, everyone this year had to deal with the rise of the trolls.

Trolling is a phenomenon as old because the internet and it gained renown during the U.S. poll.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Image: pa

Woke

Image: VICKY LETA/ MASHABLE

After the Trayvon Martin slay in 2013 and the Black Lives Matter movement, awake has made a comeback though sometimes it has been used inappropriately in non-political, ludicrous tweets.

Glossary 2016

So there you have it. A Glossary of 2016. Who knows what statements waiting for us next year.

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These are the words that encapsulate 2016

Alt-Right

The so called “alt-right” movement backed Donald Trump during the presidential election though Trump himself said he forswears and denounce them.

Brexit

Final causes on our Lego Brexit map. Blue expanses voted be retained in the EU; cherry-red localities voted to leave. #EURefResults pic.twitter.com/ cJfzBNsY6y

Mashable UK (@ MashableUK) June 24, 2016

Bigly

One of the many verbal mysteries of Donald Trump during the campaign was whether he was saying “bigly” or “big league”.

Trump on immigration: “We’re going to speed up the process bigly.” #DebateNight pic.twitter.com/ Sc8w2QSPGV

Mashable News (@ MashableNews) October 20, 2016

“‘Bigly’ or ‘big league’? The latter, I’m quite sure, ” Lin said.

Barb( Stranger Things)

Barb’s atrocious fatality was one of the most debated Tv deaths this year, contributing scores of Stranger Things fans to ask: will there be right for Barb?

Image: Netflix

Coulrophobia

Coulrophobia is defined as a rare, extreme or irrational fear of comics. This summer the suspicion reached another level.

From there, the fear of jesters increased and eventually increased across the pond .

Here’s a map of all the sightings.

Image: Mashable/ google maps

Dabbing

Dabbing, or the Dab, is an Atlanta-based hip-hop dance that was disseminated by Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton during his MVP 2015 -1 6 NFL season.

Originally used to describe a flesh of marijuana application, the word ‘dabbing’ went on to have a second meaning in 2016.

The dance acquired it to social media, where people shared Vines and videos of themselves thumping the dab.

Later in 2016, Newton testified the Dab dead, saying: “I have to put that aside.”

Image: Getty Images

Fake news

Image: ap photo

Glass cliff

Theresa May at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, October

Image: Getty images

Harambe

Harambe is the gorilla who was shot and killed in August after grabbing a 4-year-old boy and dragging him across an exhibit in Cincinnati Zoo.

The trolling was so hard that it action the zoo to remove its social media accounts.

If you think you have it bad, be happy you don’t guide the Cincinnati Zoo Twitter chronicle. pic.twitter.com/ Ygpc2PWYeM

Anth (@ __Kessel) August 20, 2016

Headphone jack

Apple’s annualiPhone launch always touches the mobile world like a glossy glassmeteor, but the newiPhone 7 had an aftershock this is gonna be felt for years: the removal of the headphone jack.

Image: AP/ RICHARD DREW

Hodor!( Game of Thrones)

Hodor had been among the first Tv anguishes( and revelations) of the year and certainly the hardest to forget.

Game of Thrones followers learned the inceptions of Hodor in a zombie-filled conclusion that ended with the soothing giant being swarmed by a rabble as he held a opening to shield Bran.

Hodor= “Hold the Door”. This certainly changed the room GoT followers experienced about holding the door.

HOLD THE DOOR HOLD THE DOO HOLD THE DO HOLD THE D HOLD THE HOLD TH HOLD T HOLD HOL HO H HO HOD HODO HODOR

Chora Minha Nega (@ guip) May 23, 2016

Islamophobia

Twitter useds documented prejudiced chapters on the programme, use hashtags like #postbrexitracism and #postrefracism. On Facebook, an book announced “Worrying Signs” curated reported incidents.

Image: maeril.tumblr.com

Latinx

Latinx replaces the gendered ‘a’ or ‘o’ pointing with ‘x’. Its still uncommon, but widely used on American university campuses.

Lemonade

Image: Beyonce

Nasty wives

In the final presidential conversation, Hillary Clinton, while discussing Donald Trumps tax pays, was interrupted by the Republican nominee who said, leaning into the mic: such a nasty woman.

Pokemon become

Post-Truth

Post-truth is the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016. Find out more: https :// t.co/ jxETqZMxsu pic.twitter.com/ MVMuMyf8 3K

Oxford Dictionaries (@ OxfordWords) November 16, 2016

Peach emoji

The peach emoji when it looked like a butt.

When Apple exhausted the first beta form of iOS 10.2, numerous people were frantic because of an update on the peach emoji, which appeared more like a normal peach and less like a butt.

noooooo they’re changing the peach emoji pic.twitter.com/ CmHkef9MlM

alix (@ freckledbutt) November 1, 2016

Thankfully, after some serious internet backlash, Apple appears to have redesigned the emoji to to once again resemble a butt.

Spectacles( Snapchat )

The brand-new smart sunglasses , rolled out in November, furnish a whole new ordeal in snapping, earmarking filming in terms of the user.

Since the launch they’ve been used everywhere from in the sack to in surgery.

Surreal

Trolls

Image: ap photo

From Reddit’s CEO to the Royal Family, everyone this year had to deal with the rise of the trolls.

Trolling is a phenomenon as old because the internet and it gained renown during the U.S. poll.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Image: pa

Woke

Image: VICKY LETA/ MASHABLE

After the Trayvon Martin slay in 2013 and the Black Lives Matter movement, awake has made a comeback though sometimes it has been used inappropriately in non-political, ludicrous tweets.

Glossary 2016

So there you have it. A Glossary of 2016. Who knows what statements waiting for us next year.

BONUS: This super precise handwriting robot is so satisfying to watch

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